Global Internet Slowdown of 9-14-2011
On 9-14-11, for 20 minutes, the whole Internet slowed down dramatically.
This seems like a big deal to me, but I haven't heard any explanation so far.
Here is the global data.
I got this data from
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/rawdata/itr-data.csv
at 1:40 pm 9-16-2011.
Here is the North American data:
Here is a Tweet from Twitter about it, which they later deleted.
I got it from the Google cache.
BGP Data
I got this BGP data online, and I don't see anything unusual happening at that time. I don't understand how an event like that could fail to affect BGP; but if it did, the effect was more subtle, I guess.
Resources
The Datapository -- BGP Data and more
BGP Instability Report
BGP Monitoring System
The BGP IPv6 Instability Report
Posted 1:52 pm 9-16-11 by Sam Bowne
Updated with BGP data 9-21-11